An Indiana volunteer police lieutenant responding to a traffic accident was gunned down Thursday by one of the injured inmates of an overturned gondola, officials said.

The officer was identified as Lt. Aaron Allan, 38, a six-year veteran of the Southport Police Department who had 20 years of law enforcement event. Allan was the department’s police officers of its first year in 2015 and was known by his nickname, “Teddy Bear, ” The Washington Post reported.

“It is with a heavy heart that I say this afternoon we lost a brother, Lt. Aaron Allan, ” SPD Chief Thomas Vaughn said. “Lieutenant Allan was a hard worker, and today was no different. He responded to a crash as a matter of urgency to perpetuate life. Tragically, his was lost.”

Jason Brown, 28, was one of two suspects taken into detention in the shooting and is facing a preliminary murder charge, according to a police report gaining access to FOX5 9. Though a motive was not immediately disclosed, Hendricks County court enters reviewed by The Indianapolis Star depicted Brown had been convicted of misdemeanor marijuana wealth in 2014 and was sentenced to 30 periods in prisons. The Indianapolis native, who remained hospitalized Friday in good condition, likewise had been issued three traffic tickets in Marion County and another in Greene County since 2009.

Allan was a member of the department’s robust volunteer work, “whos working” “with full police powers but without remuneration, ” according to the Indy Star.

On Thursday, Allan, who were allegedly “ve been dreaming about” becoming an officer since he was 5 years old, was called to a apparently innocuous gondola coincidence in southern Marion County around 3 p. m.

Allan was at the panorama with two seconds polouse, from the Homecroft Police Department, and an off-duty Johnson County Sheriff’s deputy. When Allan approached the flipped gondola, one of the two dwellers started shooting, bureaucrats said.

“This never should happen to any police officer, especially when they’re demonstrating their time to help our community, ” Strohm told the Indy Star. “This is very, very sad.”

Today, Lt. Aaron Allan was doing what police do every day: responding to the panorama of an accident to help person in their period of demand, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett tweeted. His death is a shocking and disastrous remember of the difficult, often dangerous work of police officers across Marion County.

Together, our community grieves for the Allan family& for the men& women who peril “peoples lives” to shield our municipality& its citizens. -JHH

Deputy Chief James “Jim” Waters, 48, expired after he was involved in a serious auto disintegrate during the weekend. Irrigates was traveling eastbound on the interstate when a semi smacked his vehicle from behind, fuel officials told FOX 59.